Indications

Contraindications

Introduce concept of "cloned" drivers to minimize impact on HW certifications In cases where updating driver <foo> would have impacted too many hardware certifications we introduced a cloned driver <foo-new> which supports only the new PCI IDs by default.

Support many new hardware components via driver and PCI ID updates:

cloned tg3-new with version 3.10 to support Broadcom 5721 and 5751

cloned bcm-new with version 7.3.5 to support Broadcom 5721

updated e1000-new with version 5.3.19 to support one new PCI ID

updated ixgb to version 1.0.82 to support 10 GB Ethernet

updated ipr to version 2.0.10.1 to support new RAID types

updated IBM ServeRAID driver ips to 7.10.18 to fix bugs

updated s2io driver to version 1.7.5.1

updated qlogic to version 8.00.00 to use official release which is better and binary compatible to version 8.00.00b14 which was used in SLES 9 GA.

updated megaide to version 5.07r to support LSI controllers

updated megaraid_mbox to version 2.20.4.2/2.20.2.4 for new hardware support

Improved iSCSI and SAN/NAS support with patches from EMC, NetAPP and others

Backported several NFS bugfixes from upstream/mainline kernel

Integrated patches to allow enabling ext3 reservation code

fix file locking for 32 bit apps running on 64 bit systems

improve NFS performance by avoiding unnecessary sillyrenames

allow swapfiles > 2G on x86

fix reiserfs oops on small file systems (< 128 MB)

fix panic and deadlock in XFS directIO

allow reading from zeropage with O_DIRECT/rawio

add reiserfs performance improvements

fix ACL umask handling over nfs

add several autofs4 fixes

infiniband can also be used on ppc64

fix oops in aio_free_ring

fix spinlock problem in infiniband drivers

fix ext2/ext3 memory leak

Fix ext3 directIO when extending the journal

kernel statd should accept NOTIFY calls from high ports

Availability

Added multipath fixes for barrier handling

With SP1 we now disabled by default the multipathing failover support in the QLogic driver as it caused many problems. We print a warning that it is depreciated and how one can still turn it on if needed using ql2xfailover=1

Solution

Please install the updates provided at the location noted below.

Installation notes

This update is provided as an RPM package that can easily be installed onto a running system by using this command:
rpm -Fvh kernel-debug.rpm
In case you are using LILO as bootmanager, please make sure that you also execute the command
lilo
after installing the update for the system to remain bootable.
Finally, reboot the system with shutdown -r now.

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